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Summary

See how environmental policy is shaped with ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: DOMESTIC AND GLOBAL DIMENSIONS! Easy-to-read and concise, this political science text shows you how environmental problems are identified and how solutions are formulated and implemented. With objective and clear explanations of controversies, you will gain an understanding of how politics affects policymaking and how that affects progress toward solving environmental problems. Coverage of events such as the tsunami in Indonesia, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the 2004 presidential campaign give you insight into the environmental policy behind recent events.

Table of Contents

AN ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS TIMELINE

LIST OF TABLES

X

LIST OF FIGURES

XII

PREFACE

XIII

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

XVI

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

XVII

INTRODUCTION

1

(304)

1 A Historical Framework for Environmental Protection

9

(28)

Germination of an Idea: From the Colonial Period to 1900

11

(2)

Progressive Reforms and Conservationism: 1900-1945

13

(2)

Recreation and the Age of Ecology: Post-World War II to 1969

15

(2)

Earth Days and Deregulation: 1970-1992

17

(4)

Global Awareness and Gridlock: 1993-2000

21

(6)

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